The first UAE national football team will launch its first gathering tomorrow afternoon at the closed camp that will be held in Al Ain until 27 this year under the leadership of his new Colombian coach Jorge Luis Pinto, who arrived in the UAE today (Tuesday) and held a meeting at the headquarters of the Football Association with the second vice president of the Football Association head of the Committee Teams and technical affairs, Youssef Hussein Al-Sahlawi.
It is expected that the national team will hold its first training session at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, which hosts all the training throughout the days of the camp, and the players and members of the technical and administrative bodies have undergone medical examination procedures in order to ensure their safety.
The list of the team includes 28 players: Khaled Issa, Ali Khasif, Mohamed Al Shamsi, Adel Al Hosni, Muhammad Barghash, Abdulaziz Heikal, Salem Rashid, Khalifa Al Hammadi, Mohamed Marzouq, Mohamed Ahmed, Walid Abbas, Ismail Ahmed, Youssef Jaber, Majed Hassan, Tariq Ahmed, Khamis Ismail, Ahmed Berman, Ali Salmin, Ali Saleh, Abdullah Ramadan, Bandar Al-Ahbabi, Khalfan Mubarak, Omar Abdel Rahman, Caio Canedo, Fabio Lima, Ali Mabkhout, Ahmed Khalil, and Sebastian Tigali.
The Football Association said in an official statement that the preparation program during the training camp includes an acquaintance session between the Colombian coach and the players, morning and evening exercises, and theoretical lectures, while the Colombian coach will continue his follow-up to a number of previous white matches in the joint qualifiers, as well as some local league matches to expand His database of Emirati football, especially after the clubs returned to training since last July 11, in light of the guidance of the Football Association and its health protocol approved by the official authorities in the country.